Ok. these people have A LOT of problems. 10 episodes in and everything is snowballing to the extent, I'm having trouble keeping up. To quote Nam Joong Do: "Why doesn't anything go right?" I felt that.
>Was the mom also dead and in another "village"? Yes. In episode 1, Il Yong was able to visit Thomas in a different…
Oh right! I forgot this about Thomas/Il Yong. Well, this just needs a 3rd season then, so we can explore these villages/worlds and how it all connects. Thanks for reminding me/clearing that up. :)
Someone not as dense as me, please share some thoughts: How could Il Yong touch and have a convo with Alice's mom? Was the mom also dead and in another "village"? It looked like he crossed between two worlds after he left her?
Man, I'm SO glad the coma twist panned out. I hope, he doesn't end up dying for real. But with this show, he'll probably die, when ML catches his killer.
I'm very curious to find out Il Yongs connection to the nurse and ML. Bc it must be the reason he sought him out at the very beginning - or maybe at least gravitated towards him. And the nurse clearly noticed ML in the alley at the end. She looked like she knew him. But is him dreaming he's looking up and seeing her face somehow....Il Young?
Wasn't Il Yong's mom dead too? Maybe he's ML's lost brother. Or some other family relation. Argh, I can't come up with any theory that makes sense.
I would think it’s actually pretty possible. There are many times people ignored “mentally unstable” people…
You are right, it's just so hard to handle, when you watch that scene and see the lack of reaction or just aknowledgement of another human being visibly in distress and pain. Plus it would have saved his life.
I think, that was the part that hit hardest. No one grabbed their phone. Zero to maybe one couple even looked at him. stopped or just slowed down. But you have a point, I didn't even think about it, because Wol Woo had my heart, but people are afraid to approach "someone who could be crazy" due to fear of not being able to handle the situation or get involved in someone else's problems. Pretty depressing, but harsh reality.
I'm not going to sit here behind the comfort of my screen and be all saintlike, because I've never been in that situation, but damn I'd like to believe, that if I saw someone so messed up and bleeding as Wol Woo on the street - especially with open shops, lights and other people around, I would engage. At least call for help while staying in close proximity of that person.
That Jinyoung press conference quote. "...if they can just look at them once - that's success." Powerful....and sad.
Can somebody tell me about the drawing son hwan threw at court? How did he knew that teacher was the killer.
The drawing was to show, he knew the counselor molested Wol Woo, but he didn't know he'd also killed him. Il Woo realizes it, when he visits the teacher in prison, but we never really see, that either of them finds out, what happened to Wol Woo. We're just shown in a flash back, how he died.
It took me days to shake the feelings of anger and sadness after sitting through this movie. The story doesn't let up for over two hours. There is no light. So is it a good movie? Without a doubt, but it's really the acting that makes this raw and unflinchingly dark ride worthwhile.
I've had my eye on Kim Dong Hwi ever since he wowed me with his performance in Journey To The Shore, and he doesn't disappoint here either. But this is Park Jin Youngs movie and his acting is phenomenal. Yes, his all out portrayal of Joo Il Woo is impressive, but it was Joo Wol Woo, who had my whole heart in every scene. The amount of tears I cried for that boy.
The scene where Ill Woo leaves the apartment and we cut to Wol Woo sitting on the floor, wishing his brother (who he clearly loves) a Merry Christmas, I just lost it. And the scene where he goes back to his job after getting beat up. When he starts to clean up, saying he can't get fired.......lost it again. I have only seen Park Jin Young in a small guest role up until this movie, but this sure is my cue to start paying attention to his future projects and check out his past dramas. He should be awarded for this performance.
A couple of things irritated me. The counselor getting sentenced to only 4 years for killing those kids? Even though there was no justice for Wol Woo, I'm glad the counselor got his in the end at the hands of someone other than Il Woo, because Il Woo would have waited until his release to kill him, and subsequently throw his own life away.
That scene where a visibly hurt Wol Woo is walking in the middle of a crowded street and not one soul stops to help or even asks if he's OK. Is that realistic? I hope not.
Overall not a pleasant two hours spent, and the kind of movie you watch once and never want to endure again. Now I just have to find a way to get the sound of Wol Woo singing that Christmas song out of my head. 😟
I'd like to order one Mr. T.O. with a massive scoop of Tanaka Maririn and please sprinkle a generous amount of Minegishi on top. My life would appreciate it. Thanks!
Jin Seung Hee in general and her mom's constant use of guilt and pity ploys is driving me up the wall. The fact that she left her husband alone for years to deal with mom, while she ran off to Australia? It's just next level selfish crazy town. If I was Choi Ki Young, I'd grow a pair and run like hell. Away from these women who treat him like a child and that toxic household.
The end of episode 8 shifted my opinion on Soo Bin completely. Suddenly she isn't just the ex moping around the house with a shifty agenda. Now she's possibly a victim of a relationship gone bad and an ex-bf who manipulated her and killed himself putting her in the exact same position as the FL and the ML. There must be more to the story of Soo Bin though, bc why did she introduce herself and move into the house in the first place.
And what was the deal with someone messing with the envelope in the mail box after Soo Bin left and FL arrived?!
It hurt my heart seeing how the ripple effects of everyone's actions are now putting visible strain on the FL & ML, who seemed to be so solid and wholesome.
Oh, goody. They just had to remind us how much we cried in ep. 7, and repeated some of the tough emotional scenes in this episode?! Yes, more crying right at the beginning. I swear, the school teacher/principal (?) dude Jung Young-Jin is creeping me out. For a minute there, I thought he was the child molester in the woods. We don't see much of police guy Shin Joon Ho these past episodes/this season, but it's nice how Lee Jong A is more integrated into the story. There are just too many kids in this village (= too many upcoming tears!) I'm already preparing myself for when they find Alice. .... .....Or for when Wookie has to part ways with (the now capless) Oh Il Yong. I have no good theories on how/why he can cross over between these two worlds, while the others can't, but I really hope show doesn't spend too much time on the conflict/drama, now that the rest of the village people find out.
Show actually has some interesting comments and takes on what constitutes a normal marriage, individual happiness, pressure/expectations from society and social circles and alternative ways of being together as two people in love. But things start to drag and go in circles halfway through, and they could have optimized the whole ride (and made it less frustrating), if they had dropped three-four episodes. I swear, when they introduced the doppelganger "fruitless love" influencer, I almost lost it.
Yes, the ML is unbelievably dense and a horrible communicator, but a stunningly handsome Sakaguchi with messy hair, glasses and weird sleeping patterns still manages to make the character mostly adorkable. Yes, FL is more open and direct, but her bad communication skills causes just as many unnecessary problems.
Too bad all the misunderstandings end up taking so much time, that we hardly get to see these two being on the same page as a couple. Instead we get a weird, sudden shift between the leads as the FL withdraws and causes a new conflict and separation right when the ML finally gets it and starts expressing his feelings.
The 2nd ML was such a green flag and honestly the better match for FL (better chemistry too) but at least he got his happy end as well.
I think that is Captain Kang's boat and the man in the woods might have been one of her crew who died along with…
Yeah, that makes sense. It definitely seems like Capt. Kang knows something, and maybe other people in the village do to, since you get the "secret, we must never discuss" vibe. But what confuses me then is the fact, that when Alice was put in the boat and clearly met this person, she wasn't down about it. And her drawing afterwards was happy like the teacher said, when she started analyzing the kids' drawings.
Episode 7 was rough! I mean, did they really have to end it on emotional level 1000? When the guy described how Lee Ro Ha had run crying after his mom in the ambulance, I started thinking "do NOT show me that scene", because I got choked up simply imagining it. But of course they just had to go there. It also didn't help when they showed the three kids in their teens & 20's. I was crying so hard by then.
I love to watch the trust and brotherly relationship, that is building between Oh Il Yong and Wookie and it'll be interesting to see what the deal is with the boat and the mysterious guy in those woods.
Such a charming and heartwarming gem with undeniably addicting songs. I went in expecting honestly not a whole lot and ended up postponing my watch of the last few episodes, because I didn't want to say goodbye to this loveable bunch of characters.
I loved how the lines between fiction & reality got blurred in some key scenes. Especially during episode 9 & 10. Both episodes got surprisingly emotional. I don't know what they did to Mori Shuuto/Hiyama Ryusei, but if his crying scenes in those last episodes weren't real, his acting was downright flawless . I was doing fine keeping it together until he started bawling.
Highs: the cinematography, the growing friendship of Chan Hong & Don Hyuk, the parents, that hug (!) and Lee Shin Youngs dialect. Lows: The disjointed storyline and wanting to tackle too many genres in so little time.
Overall a cute and easy watch. Not without its flaws, but I can overlook most of them. I liked the chemistry between the leads, and the intense dental products placement was borderline funny. If this is bromance, it sure is bromance in overdrive.
How could Il Yong touch and have a convo with Alice's mom? Was the mom also dead and in another "village"? It looked like he crossed between two worlds after he left her?
Man, I'm SO glad the coma twist panned out. I hope, he doesn't end up dying for real. But with this show, he'll probably die, when ML catches his killer.
I'm very curious to find out Il Yongs connection to the nurse and ML. Bc it must be the reason he sought him out at the very beginning - or maybe at least gravitated towards him. And the nurse clearly noticed ML in the alley at the end. She looked like she knew him. But is him dreaming he's looking up and seeing her face somehow....Il Young?
Wasn't Il Yong's mom dead too? Maybe he's ML's lost brother. Or some other family relation. Argh, I can't come up with any theory that makes sense.
I think, that was the part that hit hardest. No one grabbed their phone. Zero to maybe one couple even looked at him. stopped or just slowed down. But you have a point, I didn't even think about it, because Wol Woo had my heart, but people are afraid to approach "someone who could be crazy" due to fear of not being able to handle the situation or get involved in someone else's problems. Pretty depressing, but harsh reality.
I'm not going to sit here behind the comfort of my screen and be all saintlike, because I've never been in that situation, but damn I'd like to believe, that if I saw someone so messed up and bleeding as Wol Woo on the street - especially with open shops, lights and other people around, I would engage. At least call for help while staying in close proximity of that person.
That Jinyoung press conference quote. "...if they can just look at them once - that's success." Powerful....and sad.
I've had my eye on Kim Dong Hwi ever since he wowed me with his performance in Journey To The Shore, and he doesn't disappoint here either. But this is Park Jin Youngs movie and his acting is phenomenal. Yes, his all out portrayal of Joo Il Woo is impressive, but it was Joo Wol Woo, who had my whole heart in every scene. The amount of tears I cried for that boy.
The scene where Ill Woo leaves the apartment and we cut to Wol Woo sitting on the floor, wishing his brother (who he clearly loves) a Merry Christmas, I just lost it. And the scene where he goes back to his job after getting beat up. When he starts to clean up, saying he can't get fired.......lost it again. I have only seen Park Jin Young in a small guest role up until this movie, but this sure is my cue to start paying attention to his future projects and check out his past dramas. He should be awarded for this performance.
A couple of things irritated me. The counselor getting sentenced to only 4 years for killing those kids? Even though there was no justice for Wol Woo, I'm glad the counselor got his in the end at the hands of someone other than Il Woo, because Il Woo would have waited until his release to kill him, and subsequently throw his own life away.
That scene where a visibly hurt Wol Woo is walking in the middle of a crowded street and not one soul stops to help or even asks if he's OK. Is that realistic? I hope not.
Overall not a pleasant two hours spent, and the kind of movie you watch once and never want to endure again. Now I just have to find a way to get the sound of Wol Woo singing that Christmas song out of my head. 😟
The end of episode 8 shifted my opinion on Soo Bin completely. Suddenly she isn't just the ex moping around the house with a shifty agenda. Now she's possibly a victim of a relationship gone bad and an ex-bf who manipulated her and killed himself putting her in the exact same position as the FL and the ML. There must be more to the story of Soo Bin though, bc why did she introduce herself and move into the house in the first place.
And what was the deal with someone messing with the envelope in the mail box after Soo Bin left and FL arrived?!
It hurt my heart seeing how the ripple effects of everyone's actions are now putting visible strain on the FL & ML, who seemed to be so solid and wholesome.
Please, please stay in this soft, low angst lane!
I swear, the school teacher/principal (?) dude Jung Young-Jin is creeping me out. For a minute there, I thought he was the child molester in the woods.
We don't see much of police guy Shin Joon Ho these past episodes/this season, but it's nice how Lee Jong A is more integrated into the story.
There are just too many kids in this village (= too many upcoming tears!) I'm already preparing myself for when they find Alice. ....
.....Or for when Wookie has to part ways with (the now capless) Oh Il Yong. I have no good theories on how/why he can cross over between these two worlds, while the others can't, but I really hope show doesn't spend too much time on the conflict/drama, now that the rest of the village people find out.
Yes, the ML is unbelievably dense and a horrible communicator, but a stunningly handsome Sakaguchi with messy hair, glasses and weird sleeping patterns still manages to make the character mostly adorkable. Yes, FL is more open and direct, but her bad communication skills causes just as many unnecessary problems.
Too bad all the misunderstandings end up taking so much time, that we hardly get to see these two being on the same page as a couple. Instead we get a weird, sudden shift between the leads as the FL withdraws and causes a new conflict and separation right when the ML finally gets it and starts expressing his feelings.
The 2nd ML was such a green flag and honestly the better match for FL (better chemistry too) but at least he got his happy end as well.
Shoutout to the cute squishy faced cat.
I love to watch the trust and brotherly relationship, that is building between Oh Il Yong and Wookie and it'll be interesting to see what the deal is with the boat and the mysterious guy in those woods.
I loved how the lines between fiction & reality got blurred in some key scenes. Especially during episode 9 & 10. Both episodes got surprisingly emotional. I don't know what they did to Mori Shuuto/Hiyama Ryusei, but if his crying scenes in those last episodes weren't real, his acting was downright flawless . I was doing fine keeping it together until he started bawling.
I demand a season 2!
Lows: The disjointed storyline and wanting to tackle too many genres in so little time.